The High Cost Of Living

Dan DeLuca

Music Critic

Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."

"... Ain't nothin' like the cost of living high." Watch out for a country boy with a resonant baritone and a knack for a clever turn of phrase. Below, you will find Jamey Johnson's song about the virtues of beng clean and sober. "With my new found sobriety, I've got time to think of all the things I had, and threw away." Johnson will be at the Mann Center in Fairmount Park tonight, and he's the principal attraction outside of the red-headed septuagenarian who's headlining Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown tour.